Hot-meal portable cabinet.



PATENTED APR. 7, 1903 H- H. 000KB. HOT MEAL PORTABLE CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12, 1901.

M MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HELEN HARRIET OOOKE, OF TORONTO, CANADA.

HOT-MEAL PORTABLE CABIN ET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,547, dated April 7,1903. Application filed September 12, 1901. Serial No. 75,189. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Beit known that I, HELEN HARRIET COOKE, gentlewoman, of the city ofToronto, in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hot-Meal PortableCabinets, of which the following is a specification. My inventionrelates to improvements in hot-meal cabinets; and-the object of theinvention is to devise a cabinet of this class by net with lower portionof cabinet broken away and doors open to show the interior construction.Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sec' tion.

,In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding partsin each figure.

A is the casing of the cabinet, which is preferably rectangular in form.

B B are the front doors.

0 is the water-tank, which is provided with a reverse cone-shapedbottom. The tank 0 is provided with a filling-elbow c, which extendsfrom one side of the tank.

0' is a stopper for closing the filling-elbow.

c is a tap located on the opposite side of the tank and designed to drawoff hot water.

D is what is known as a blue-flame heater, which is suppliedfrom thetank D by means of a pipe d, provided with a suitable needlevalve d forcontrolling the flow of petro leum. I l

E is a chamber located at one side of the heater D and provided with ashelf 6. The chamber E is designed to receive the dessert for the table.

C is a hollow wall which communicates at the bottom with the tank 0 andat the top with hollow top 0 F is the space for the joint of meat.

G is the space for the soup, which isplaced in high cans. H is the spacefor the fish, and I is the space arranged for the vegetables. All'thespaces are arranged as may be most convenient; but I think' thearrangement which I have shown is thepreferable one, in which spacesdishes may be placed which may be removed for the purpose of cleansing.

J is the handle, by which the cabinet is carried to the family for whichit is intended. The doors of course will then be locked.

The heater D is intended to be kept burning sufficiently so as tomaintain the water in the tank preferably at boiling-point, and thesteam arising from the hollow walls 0 and from the top 0 will escapethrough a safetyvalve at C It will thus be seen that the victuals abovethe tank will be surrounded by heat, and consequently will be kept warm.

The space E, in which the dessert is placed, will also be kept warm onaccount of its proximity to the hot-water tank and heater D.

By such a cabinet as I describe the most trying portion of the familycookingwill be dispensed with, and the meals can be served hot tofamilies with the greatest facility. I

preferably provide small openings in the wall of the cabinet beneath thebottom of the tank, so as to allow the escape of the products ofcombustion.

What I claim as my invention is A hot-meal cabinet comprising arectangular casing having a rigid top bottom, sides and back and an openfront, doors closing the same, a horizontal water-tank locatedapproximately centrally of the height of said casing, an innerrectangular casing located in the space above said water-tank and havinga solid top, bottom, sides and back and an open front, the top and wallsof said inner casing being spaced from the walls and top of the outercasing to form a steam-jacket, partitions in said inner casing formingvictualspaces, partitions in the space below the water-reservoir forminga central and side compartments, and a heater in the centralcompartment, substantially as described.

HELEN HARRIET COOKE. Witnesses:

H. T. S. YOUNG, L. TRIMBLE.

